The Indianapolis journal., 1887-12-11
WOMEN AND THEIR DOINGS.
How They Are Developing Business Capabil-
ities-Costly Luxuries.
Women as Carpet Buyers.

Special to the Indianapolis journal
New YORK, Dec. I0-A slender woman with
short, brown curly hair and very pretty bonnet
that yet somehow was not New York bonnet
was looking at carpets in the warerooms of
prominent manufacturer the other day.
Her face had the round. almost childish out
lines which one woman in some thousands pre-
serves beyond thirty, and her eyes were big and
brown and shy OF the sort which the average
man, woman either always succumbs to.
She was daintily dressed and she had dainty
manners Her tones low and feminine,
yet she was so far unsexed that she was giving
a largish order in straight forward, civilized,
business like way.
'sDo many women buyers visit you?" ! asked
experimentally with my eyes on the brown curls.
''Three or four week, perhaps, and the num-
Der is increasing. That woman there is the
largest of the feminine buyers. and she has a
romantic story if you to hear it Nice
eyes, hasn't shel
''She is not so pretty now, though as she was
when 1 sasr-1er 9rst. That was yes it must be
ten years ago. She had a rosy color then, and
she looked the happiest creature in the world
"Her father and her lover brought her here
one day. The father prosperous carpet
dealer in an Iowa town on a business trip to the
clty, ana une lover was his Clerk, JlSb
to junior partnership. She was going to carry
one of them off to matinee and dropped in here
to pass an hour before theater time
''The three of them looked at carpets together
and the girl was bubbling over with laughter
and sunshine. She proposed to help the men in
their stock replenishing and they were sur
prised to find that she had very common-sense
views to what her neighbors at home would
or would not buy. half in jest they let her
make her own selections and she chose fifty to
one hundred rolls with amazing discrimination.
1T was a week after that, suppose. when
the party went home There a railroad ac-
cdent, and the lover was killed and the father
manned Do you suppose that girl sat down
and let her life run through he~ fngersl Not
she. She took her fathers business, and has
been customer of ours ever since. turning up
twice a year regular as the seasons come
round. She is making money and is a success
full business woman. Has bigger store than
her father had, they tell me.
'sShe has never married and I don't believe
she ever will.
here because she associates us with the time be-
fore her lover died"
''And do your other women buyers make good
business men2"
CLOSEST buyers we have some of them I
know one woman whose husband owns large
curtain upholstering and carpet business in
fact, a general housefurnishing store, and that
woman knows more of the actual details of the
business than he does, though he's no fool let
tell you. One of our women buyers has
taken to designing also, and she brought me
of the prettiest Garnet designs that have
ever seen while ago. We We're only too glad
to make it up for her. and the pattern is
of the best selling 'bodys' we have in stock"
But don't you find that women as rule are
more easily Influenced than menN
mot in business. Once let a woman under
stand thoroughly what she is about and she will
never be imposed on. She will give her atten-
ton to every detail, choose her goods with per-
feet knowledge of her market, and exercise
much better taste than the average male buyer.
1t is all IN her line house-f -furnisher. Add
business sense to her natural home making in
stincts and you have ideal carpet buyer.
think 1 could give you the names of two dozen
lady buyers who visit US often, and they are one
and all doing well